In the Indian subcontinent, Mediatek based phones/phablets with specifications equal to Samsung Galaxy S3 are selling at quarter the price.A Quad-core(Mediatek), 1GB ram, 8 MP 1080p video cam, 720p+ display are selling for around $220 and run temple-run 2 on full graphics.

They are all imported from China and rebranded even micromax. Have you see wicked wammy. A Mumbai based company. Except for their name. It looked a complete Samsung ripoff. One should stay away from such phones dev's don't support them.

Lol are you serious..? Just now only very very main stream devices are supported. That's why I bought a nexus when I heard they were thinking of this phone as the base. I tried it once but was not happy with it.

Linux is far off when it comes to ARM stuff. Ubuntu has some level of shady support. But dont expect anything like a computer/laptop.It will still be some years ahead where you could just connect to hdmi and kb/mouse and install linux directly(either ROM or BIOS boot image) and Not be dependent on android.

It's cool that they're trying. Personally I think you want as much competition as possible to emerge in the mobile arena so we don't see a repeat of any completely dominating influence with the hardware. We want competition, so hopefully we can have fair competition within the merits of the programming instead of marketing and shifty business tactics. Like choosing a PC over Mac while PC really represents Windows and Microsoft owns shares in Apple. Totally Legit.

Xanayoshi wrote:It's cool that they're trying. Personally I think you want as much competition as possible to emerge in the mobile arena so we don't see a repeat of any completely dominating influence with the hardware. We want competition, so hopefully we can have fair competition within the merits of the programming instead of marketing and shifty business tactics. Like choosing a PC over Mac while PC really represents Windows and Microsoft owns shares in Apple. Totally Legit.